We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and VMware VSphere based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: VMware VSphere is the winner in this comparison. It is easy to deploy, reliable, robust, and has excellent customer support. Hyper-V does come out on top in the pricing category, however.
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"The benefit of the solution is that you can create template-based servers within minutes. If you were to use a physical server, it would probably take several hours, if not a whole day, to get everything set up the way you need."
"The provisioning setup of VMs is good."
"The technical support is good and they are available over the internet."
"It helps to automate the data replication and DR (disaster recovery)."
"Using vSphere we have virtualized over one thousand servers and this gave us management, cost and datacenter space advantages."
"The latest innovation always comes from VMware."
"The solution is very scalable."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware."
"The support for the latest version could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in Google Cloud. The reason thing there was, like, when I type something in the terminal and then immediately, I need to go to edit the certain like file for Node.js, for the server, or for Kubernetes. So I have to do it from the terminal to the editor."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"The VMware vSphere app is faster, compared to its web-based client. The web-based client is very slow, freezes, and is challenging to use."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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